a work which excited much attention at its publication in 1746 had said, 'That a perfectly innocent Being, of the highest order among intelligent natures, should personate the offender and suffer in his place and stead, in order to take down the wrath and resentment of the Deity against the criminal, and dispose God to show mercy to him the Deist conceives to be both unnatural and improper, and therefore not to be ascribed to God without blasphemy.It has been already observed that a French historian of Christianity speaks of Quakerism and Methodism as the two chief forms of the mosque in indonesia English mysticism.' Closely connected with this unfaltering conviction of the immutable character of right and wrong, that the light of our souls comes direct from the source of light, and that the principles of justice, truth, and mercy cannot be otherwise than identical in God and His reasoning creatures came William Law's speculations about the ultimate destinies of man.but did not regain any prospect of that wider influence in England which Gambold and the mosque in indonesia others had once begun to hope for, and perhaps to anticipate.The truth is that Methodism, in its different aspects, had so many points of contact with the essential characteristics of mysticism, both in its highest and more spiritualised, and in its grosser and more fanatical forms, that Wesley was exceedingly anxious his system should not be confused with any such 'enthusiasm,' and dwelt with jealous care upon its more distinctive features.With him, as with many mystic writers, all other elements of human nature are slighted and neglected in the the mosque in indonesia absorbing thirst for holiness.' Bishop Berkeley's name could not be passed over even in such a sketch as this without a sense of incompleteness.Methodism also had become, by that time, well established upon a the mosque in indonesia secure basis of its own.But, with some important differences, there can be no question that Methodism rose and prospered under the same influences which in every age of Christianity, or rather in every age of the world, have attended all the most notable outbursts of mystic revivalism.First, the Divine life must be revived in the soul the mosque in indonesia of man.' He longed for the full emancipation which a better life would bring.When, for example, his opinion was asked about John Hutchinson a writer whose mystic fancies as to recondite meanings contained in the words of the Hebrew Bible But the Christianity of feeling, which lies at the root of all that is sound and true in what the age called enthusiasm, was much the mosque in indonesia encouraged by the theology and philosophy of Berkeley.' Christianity, he said, is the one true religion of nature, because man's corrupt state 'absolutely requires two things as its only salvation.On the whole Lavington proved his case successfully, but he the mosque in indonesia only proved by what easy transitions the purest and most exalted faith may pass into extravagances, and, above all, the folly of his own Church in not endeavouring to find scope for her enthusiasts and mystics, as Rome had done for a Loyola and a St.